Amazon takes on “wrap rage” with packaging initiative — Down with obnoxious packaging that takes longer to free from the ten thousand twistie ties than it took to arrive at your house in the first place! Everyone has experienced this kind of frustration with items ranging from kids' toys …

In Landslide, John McCain Is The President Of AOL.com — The Wall Street Journal may have essentially called the Presidential election for Democrat Barack Obama this morning, but wait a tick. AOL.com's homepage political poll results are in, and the site's calling a landslide for Republican John McCain.

Class action suit filed over PowerBook G4 memory slots — Most of the time, the lawsuits that are filed against Apple involve fairly current products like the iPhone, but the most recent suit is a bit of a throwback. This time around, the PowerBook G4 is in the spotlight.

Salesforce.com Says Hello World — Salesforce.com was founded less than 10 years ago, in March 1999. This is hard to remember when you walk into the Dreamforce event at the Moscone and see all the companies, both large and small, proclaiming that they are part of their ecosystem.

Dash Charts a New Course, Cuts 50 Jobs — The credit crunch and the subsequent economic slowdown has everyone — from large corporations to individuals — reassessing their fiscal future, and many are taking drastic actions. The latest moves from the world of Silicon Valley startups comes …

Broadway and Dolly Parton Join Skirmish Over Airwaves — SAN FRANCISCO — Tuesday marks the end of a battle that has lasted for more than two years, with each side predicting apocalyptic consequences should it lose. — Not the fight for the presidency. The one pitting Google against Dolly Parton.

Visualizing data in the cloud — More and more companies are storing data in the cloud, and as this data grows, so does the need for reporting tools to make sense of this information. To address these growing needs, earlier this year we introduced the Google Visualization API …

Kindle Offers Glimpse of ROI on Oprah — Nod From Talk Queen Causes a Surge in Web Traffic — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Since Amazon launched the Kindle, its electronic reader, a year ago, it has created a swarm of dedicated customer advocates. But on Oct. 24 it snagged the most important evangelist …

Microsoft: Third party apps killing our security — Why would hackers target Microsoft directly when there is so much low hanging fruit hanging from the Windows operating system? — The short answer is that hackers won't attack Microsoft directly because they have plenty …

1,000 Web APIs — Last week ProgrammableWeb crossed one of its biggest milestones thus far when we added the 1,000th web service API to our API directory. This is a long way from the 32 APIs we started with back in the summer of 2005. Back then even the phrase “web mashup” was only a few months old.

Internetting every thing, everywhere, all the time — (CNN) — It's called “The Internet of Things” — at least for now. It refers to an imminent world where physical objects and beings, as well as virtual data and environments, all live and interact with each other in the same space and time.

Verizon BlackBerry Storm site updated, treasure hunt announced — The BlackBerry Storm notification page set up by Verizon back during the announcement has received a significant overhaul, showing off not only specs and 360°-worth of pictures, but also something of a treasure hunt from November 6th. to the 15th.

Xohm WiMax Invades DC — After attending the Baltimore Xohm launch event last month, I decided to roll the dice... And although Sprint's Xohm WiMax 4G service hasn't officially launched in the DC metro area, I can confirm that not only are the antennas up, but that they're open for business.

Virgin sacks the Facebook 13, BA customers stink — Social networking for fun and P45s — Virgin Atlantic has sacked the thirteen staff who labelled customers “chavs” and criticised the maintenance record of the airline's fleet of Boeing 747s which fly from Gatwick.